Son of a Quaker blacksmith, Herbert Clark Hoover brought to the presidency an unprecedented call for public service as an engineer, administrator and humanitarian.
Born in a village in Iowa in 1874, he grew up in Oregon. He wrote at Stanford University when it opened in 1891, has a degree in mining engineering.
He married his Stanford sweetheart, Lou Henry, and they went to China where he worked for a private firm as a senior engineer of China. In June 1900 the Boxer Rebellion caught Hoover in Tientsin. For almost a month the settlement was under heavy fire. While his wife worked in the hospitals, Hoover directed the building of barricades, and once risked his life rescuing Chinese children.
One week before Hoover's 40th Birthday celebrated in London, Germany declared war on France, and the American Consul General asked his help to stranded tourists home. In six weeks his committee helped 120 000 Americans in the United States to return. In addition to Hoover turned to a more difficult task, to Belgium, which was overrun by the German army to feed.
After the United States into the war, as President Wilson Hoover head of the Food Administration. He succeeded in cutting consumption of foods needed overseas and avoided rationing at home, yet kept the Allies out.
After the Armistice, Hoover, a member of the Supreme Economic Council and head of the American Relief Administration, organized shipments of food for starving millions in central Europe. He extended aid to famine-stricken Soviet Russia in 1921. If a critic when he was asked not help Bolshevism, Hoover replied: "Twenty million people go hungry, regardless of their politics, they will eat."
After a serve in the position as Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge, Hoover became the Republican presidential candidate in 1928. He said: "We in America today, closer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of a country." His choice was to ensure prosperity. But crashed within months the stock market, and the Nation spiraled downward into depression.
After the crash Hoover announced that while he would keep the federal budget balanced, he would cut taxes and expand public works spending.
In 1931, impacts from Europe deepened the crisis if the president to ask Congress a program for creating the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for the company, additional help for farmers facing bankruptcy mortgage, banking reform, a loan presented to the State Food the unemployed, expansion of public works, and drastic austerity measures the government.
At the same time he reiterated his view that while people may not suffer from hunger and cold, caring for them must be primarily a local and voluntary responsibility.
His opponents in Congress, which he felt were sabotaging his program for their own political gain, unfairly painted him as a heartless and cruel President. Hoover became the scapegoat for the depression and was severely beaten in 1932. In the 1930s he became a powerful critic of the New Deal, warning against tendencies toward statism.
In 1947 President Truman appointed Hoover, a commission, which elected him chairman, reorganization of the executive departments. He was appointed chairman of a similar commission by President Eisenhower in 1953. Many economies are the result of the two Commissions recommendations. Over the years, Hoover wrote many articles and books, of which he was when he died at 90 in New York City on 20 October 1964 was.
Born in a village in Iowa in 1874, he grew up in Oregon. He wrote at Stanford University when it opened in 1891, has a degree in mining engineering.
He married his Stanford sweetheart, Lou Henry, and they went to China where he worked for a private firm as a senior engineer of China. In June 1900 the Boxer Rebellion caught Hoover in Tientsin. For almost a month the settlement was under heavy fire. While his wife worked in the hospitals, Hoover directed the building of barricades, and once risked his life rescuing Chinese children.
One week before Hoover's 40th Birthday celebrated in London, Germany declared war on France, and the American Consul General asked his help to stranded tourists home. In six weeks his committee helped 120 000 Americans in the United States to return. In addition to Hoover turned to a more difficult task, to Belgium, which was overrun by the German army to feed.
After the United States into the war, as President Wilson Hoover head of the Food Administration. He succeeded in cutting consumption of foods needed overseas and avoided rationing at home, yet kept the Allies out.
After the Armistice, Hoover, a member of the Supreme Economic Council and head of the American Relief Administration, organized shipments of food for starving millions in central Europe. He extended aid to famine-stricken Soviet Russia in 1921. If a critic when he was asked not help Bolshevism, Hoover replied: "Twenty million people go hungry, regardless of their politics, they will eat."
After a serve in the position as Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge, Hoover became the Republican presidential candidate in 1928. He said: "We in America today, closer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of a country." His choice was to ensure prosperity. But crashed within months the stock market, and the Nation spiraled downward into depression.
After the crash Hoover announced that while he would keep the federal budget balanced, he would cut taxes and expand public works spending.
In 1931, impacts from Europe deepened the crisis if the president to ask Congress a program for creating the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for the company, additional help for farmers facing bankruptcy mortgage, banking reform, a loan presented to the State Food the unemployed, expansion of public works, and drastic austerity measures the government.
At the same time he reiterated his view that while people may not suffer from hunger and cold, caring for them must be primarily a local and voluntary responsibility.
His opponents in Congress, which he felt were sabotaging his program for their own political gain, unfairly painted him as a heartless and cruel President. Hoover became the scapegoat for the depression and was severely beaten in 1932. In the 1930s he became a powerful critic of the New Deal, warning against tendencies toward statism.
In 1947 President Truman appointed Hoover, a commission, which elected him chairman, reorganization of the executive departments. He was appointed chairman of a similar commission by President Eisenhower in 1953. Many economies are the result of the two Commissions recommendations. Over the years, Hoover wrote many articles and books, of which he was when he died at 90 in New York City on 20 October 1964 was.
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